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Saleem, Slumbum; same fate, different flame.

Ignorance is the only true evil in the world. The dialect of indifference has shifted empathy the same as will be seen of today through the lens of an equidistant future.

There is not a single person in this system with meritocratic validity, aka not born into wealth. The societal level nepotism of inherited wealth is the cause of all present problems. It is the common thread through every problem name you know. Intelligence is not hereditary in humans, but wealth is. This is the case in every western country except Japan.

Awesome. Now how would you strace/ptrace the active process correlated with the return packet?

This is way past my pay grade in the territory of edge-of-abstract – understanding.

See one of my problems is that the malicious software is running across Python, JavaScript, and a ton of dubious packages scattered throughout the machine. It is all interconnected and using unconventional operations. Right now I am just removing a package one and a time and seeing what breaks. I will likely miss how things are interconnected. I am not at all familiar with this type of thing, and learning as I go. The system used unshare, manually created no-label packets with all records obfuscated, used a hidden daemon function in systemd, and no-account to operate outside of namespaces.

Yeah, I could do it. The question is how to redirect a web address to do something useful locally. Like maybe setup an Apache server or something to capture and log any such attempts regardless of how the address is called.

"I’m sorry it’s so hard for you personally to acknowledge that other people exist"

When did I say anything of this sort? Your fictions are strange and independent of me. Perhaps your emotions are misplaced •»ÁĪ¬p

You do not understand the levels and oversimplify. I still care about you just the same. Manipulation is part of everything you do, including the dichotomous tribalism within your reply.

Speaking for others shows a tribalistic dogma, an illogical bias in need of address. One cannot attest to the beliefs of others, only self. Such flawed reinforcing fictions are challenging to develop beyond. I wish you luck and deeper curiosity in your travels.

What is manipulation really? Isn't everything some form of manipulation or another? Ultimately we are all just chemistry. Everything we do is a matter of balancing that chemistry.

From that perspective, we can go one step further. Is there some limited pool of chemistry that we are all competing to access. Obviously that is not the case within the physical world. Perhaps the temporal dimension could be considered the primary limiting factor, but in that resource we are all more or less equals, at least from within our social caste.

If we are all just playing a game of chemistry, every move made is of manipulative self interest. The only real difference between individuals in this dimension is self awareness. Most are not aware or thinking in this space.

So then, one should question, what does self awareness mean here? A good way to pose that question in a more concrete abstraction is to say, do you believe that there are truly evil people plotting evil deeds that harm others for the sake of evil as their prime motivation? To plot in such a way is to say that they are causing self harm willingly in their machinations. Does anyone believe that such people exist, or is everyone doing what they believe to be right, and merely ignorant, perhaps even willfully, at the harm they cause?

If you follow this thread of thought from two tangential planes of the same dimension, and mull it over well, Machiavellian is just an arbitrary label for a type of self awareness within the space of 'we are all only chemistry'. If no one is plotting in such a way as to cause self harm, and all the evil in the world is the result of a spectrum of ignorance, then the real question here at somewhere near the bottom is whether you choose to believe in utopia or inevitable dystopia. In another phrasing, is the glass half empty or half full? There is no negative constraint on manipulation.

In the dimension of humans as chemistry, my self awareness doesn't itself mean I wish to benefit myself at your expense. Just because I see how to on some logical plane, does not mean I choose that path. Quite the opposite, my altruism is another dimension entirely. For instance, a place like the fediverse has less ultimate utility for a maker like me when compared to a larger aggregate of digital public commons, but to actively choose to set aside self for more altruistically inclined motivations, is manipulative in a positive form. Especially so when promoting positive engagement from all.

There is no causal link between narcissism, greed, or selfishness and manipulative potential through self awareness, though the first is the only of those three that are real on an ontological level if one analyses them more closely under the same lens of 'what is evil'. If I am keen on altruistic and collaborative benefit; if I am aware that any abstract mechanism of attenuation is itself incapable of amplification, then it is in my own best interest to benefit you and all the rest, regardless of the spectrum of self awareness.

Therefore, everything everyone does is a form of manipulation for chemistry. I am glad you chose to engage with me for this moment in our lives. I wanted the best for you before this interaction dear digital neighbor, and want for the same after. I choose to believe the future will be brighter; that the glass is half full. I believe in it so strongly that I will do my best to bend others to the same, even when I know I do so at my own expense. Caring for others without any expectation of return is the purist form of altruism. In some sense it requires a certain inner self sadism to pursue. Perhaps at times it may be misguided. We are all pareidolia machines of analog organic form. Each of us is unable to take in and sense all the world around us. We form a coherent but assumptive inner narrative of our own existence, but it is always a fiction if scrutinized deeply enough. What are the quantum fields around your neurons right now.

From this perspective, absolutely, I love a person that is altruistically inclined and self aware beyond my scope of thought. I especially love those with emotional intelligence that easily manipulate me in a dimension where I am very weak, but where I need and welcome the help. I really do genuinely care for you as a person. It is primarily driven by logic. It is a more consistent and persistent care. I know I am weak when it comes to emotional empathy, but I actively do my best to compensate with logical empathy which I feel strongly. My unlucky physical disability at the hands of another, and over a decade in constant pain drives my desire for no one to suffer like me. My altruism is within the realm of self sadism. My inner judgemental narrative centers on observing and measuring only the actions of others, and self. I know I did not get very much individual attention as a kid, also that my parents did what they believed to be best. I do not plot for evil. I do not choose to be ignorant of the effects I may have upon others. Does this somehow make me a bad person?

When I see some perspective or argument, I always see a dozen ways to support or discredit it, and various supporting reasons to do so. There is no Self in that perspective. My quale is born from a raw curiosity, but not with malicious intent. That curiosity is more like my inner child, where I am emotionally vulnerable much the same. I must logically do my best to mask that vulnerability when others wish to do me harm. We all exist in many dimensions of thought and self awareness. Some may be more or less outliers. I much prefer those that are aware and open about their states in various dimensions of humanness. There is honesty and the potential for growth in the vulnerability of sharing. So I actively put myself in harms way to say that oversimplification here is harmfully inadequate. If you see it, please feel free to improve my chemistry by whatever means you have available. Actions are all that define you. To me, that is a wonderful action. I apologize if my abstractions and narrative are challenging to follow. My message is, I genuinely care for you as a person, and do not expect anything in return.

I'm in the process of dismantling software I will never trust or update again and coming across all kinds of sketchy stuff. There is this Python program called Sentry_SDK that is very concerning. Along with several others. It appears to be packaged with most offline AI stuff and is some of the most authoritarian nonsense I have seen. I have air gapped the computer and do not have a package installed like prettier to maybe make the JavaScript readable, and it is enormous. There are many pages that are in the 10k lines plus range.

I already found a place in the back end that is trying to send packets with major obfuscation. The process is preloaded as listening, with every measure taken to prevent discovery of its origin. So that is fun too. I will likely reformat and start over after I have had my fun and saved what I wish to save.

Assuming it is a quoted string for simplicity...."http://foo.bar/"...$ sed -i 's/\/.*\"/injection/g'

That is flawed in practicality, but gets the point across and will result in http:injection. It would take more convoluted escapes to replace the '//'.

I was thinking there has to be a way to use the address like a printf like situation. However someone tries to use an address, it just hits a local trip wire. Pass that to anything you don't want to connect on the internet. It is super lazy and hacky, but I don't really care. I use an external firewall device with DNS whitelist, so I block everything anyways. Flagging stuff just makes it easy to say something to others that might benefit.

More to many comments: why does manipulative need to be bad, or negative?

The main trigger is a lack of attention from parents in childhood leading to a lack of emotional depth. Such a person may overcome that lack of emotional depth, or emotional intelligence, with logical empathy. I feel like people are way too dichotomous here about something that is far more complex in spectrum. Why hate on people for what amounts to their upbringing. Measure people by their actions. The ability to manipulate, is not itself a negative act. It is in fact a philosopher.

Don't know, but watching heavy case files on YT from time to time, DNA is solving a lot.

It is the beginning of cataclysm-simulation_67

ComfyUI is collecting and sending metadata. Do a search for one of the following: Æ, ¤, ¥, §, including binary files in your home directory.

Thanks for your reply. The point here is not about the merits of distrobox for security. This is a constraint that is not easily changed. It is only an element present, not an implementation of sandboxing.

I am looking for the best method that is hopefully less complicated than a systemwide SELinux policy plus Pam and Groups.

If anything, the distrobox is an added issue due to the nobody user.

Walkable in the USA usually means premium exploitation. Like some developer owner that uses all the surrounding businesses like extortion. Everything in the area is 10-20% more expensive. So you still have to drive the same amount of distance for free market competitive prices, only now there is 10× the potential for an asshole neighbor. Plus, all homes in the USA are made of toothpicks and trash, so you are going to hear 10× the neighbor noise too. There is no middle ground. It is toothpicks and trash or "oh, some rich guy" pricing.

Complex social hierarchy is a super important aspect to account for too. In the proprietary software realm, you infer confidence in the accumulated wealth hierarchy. In FOSS the hierarchy is not wealth, but reputation like in academia or the film industry. If some company in Oman makes some really great proprietary app, are you going to build your European startup over top of it? Likewise, if in FOSS someone with no reputation makes some killer app, the first question to ask is whether this is going to anchor or support a stellar reputation. Maybe they are just showing off skills to land a job. If that is the case, they are just like startups that are only looking to get bought up quickly by some bigger fish. We are all conditioned to think in terms of horded wealth as the only form of hierarchy, but that is primitive. If all the wealth was gone, humans are still fundamentally complex social animals, and will always establish a complex hierarchy. This is one of the spaces where it is different.

Measure it's resistance if in a pinch. If it is in the kilohms range it is a thermistor. If it is super low resistance, it is a thermocouple. 10k ohms is the most common thermistor used in nearly everything consumer related. Nearly all common thermocouples are the same type too. It has been awhile, but IIRC they are k-type. The main difference in function is heat range. The thermistor is for lower temps and is less linear across the range in the cheap common ones. The thermocouple is two different types of wire welded at a junction at the tip. The heat causes a tiny voltage potential due to the different metals bonded together.

At scale of mass manufacturing, the thermistor is a fraction of a penny, while the thermocouple is a few cents. However the thermocouple requires an analog amplifier circuit to function, so this adds complexity in electrolytics. A thermistor is stupid simple and only requires a resistive voltage divider and any voltage threshold trigger circuit, so like a zener diode, capacitor, and single transistor.

The packaging of the sensor is the only thing you are paying for, and that is just for its mechanical mount and position, maybe some heat mass stability. A thermistor cannot handle direct flame temps, but a thermocouple technically can. In practice only the packaging of the sensor will contact a flame in some cases. Thermocouples are more rare but usually in any appliances that use natural gas. Thermistors are the third or third and fourth connection in most battery packs and found in almost anything with heat or temperature sensitive constraints.

In a pinch, all you need is the same sensing element. A coat hanger or anything similar may be a way to improvise holding it in place... should you ever need it.

The other type of common temperature regulation is a mechanical switch that uses a bimetal strip that deforms to close contacts. These will not work with the other two. Any device you hear a faint audible click from when heating, is using this type of temperature regulation. Typically old dumb coffee pots, clothes irons, etc. Thermistors are used in most small devices with some type of digital interface and a battery or heat.

It ain't bad till in the middle of things... or the night, ya wind up somehow tasting it.

It is democratic. You have a right to all information, the right to error, the right to skepticism, and the right to protest in all nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others.

In this regime of rights, the right to skepticism is the fundamental. You have a right to think for yourself. Authoritarianism is the opposite. Trust is its fulcrum and individual thought, belief, and access to information are not rights of individuals.

You cannot have democracy and citizens without outlets of free expression of all types. There is no way to know if some group is in collusion or spreading misinformation for various purposes. Having the right to anonymously express and check concerns in the public commons is absolutely critical to democracy. Any attempt to remove it is an attack on skepticism, the fundamental cornerstone of democracy that if removed causes total collapse.